Retail stores use Bluetooth beacons to track customers

Re:Retail stores use Bluetooth beacons to track customers by crazygringo on Friday June 14, 2019 @03:13PM (#20185817)

Thanks, this helps a lot.

I'm pretty shocked all this can go on in the background without permissions. With Apple adopting such a privacy-conscious stance, I really hope this gets their attention so beacon scanning requires explicit permission in the future (and separate from location services -- my weather app needs to know where I am, but certainly doesn't need to scan for beacons).

This is honestly pretty egregious.

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Re:Retail stores use Bluetooth beacons to track customers by sho on Friday June 14, 2019 @03:35PM (#20186018)

> This is honestly pretty egregious.

It certainly is. I knew about the mechanics of it but hadn't realised it was being so widely abused. I would like to see Apple come down on this swift and hard.

Third party paid SDKs! Those cunning bastards. AdTech really is the dregs.

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